Traitor Trump is garbage who pardons criminals for $$$

 So, at the same time the rightwing fever swamp is going bonkers over their conspiracy theory that Governor Tim Walz is stealing billions of dollars with the help of Somalian citizens in Minnesota, Traitor Trump is handing out Presidential Pardons to disgusting thieves, career conmen, and drug kingpins.

Before I go on, unlike the Corporate Media which has just kind of accepted That's just Trump being Trump, I don't think we the people can merely accept that Traitor Trump is such a racist he called refugees "garbage" and of course in his racist brain he blamed President Barack HUSSEIN Obama because Trump is a disgusting racist and has been for decades, without understanding this may be the most bigoted vile racist person to ever besmirch the White House.

Looking at Rafael Ted Cruz adhered to Trump's backside like a remora is such a fitting historical legacy for that odious toady.  
But, I place no faith in the judgment of history and it's immaterial anyway because of the massive damage to the Nation, and the foundations of law being done by this regime right now.  But, no amount of evidence will ever cause his fanbase of racists to lose faith in him because he's doing what they have yearned for murdering and brutalizing Hispanic people at home and abroad.  Owning the Libs, destroying the Federal Government and torturing Trans people, or Latinos, or Muslims, or people living in and around Democratic cities and states is what MAGA voters wanted and what they are getting.

But, remember the epistemically closed agitprop rightwing fart bubble means your relatives are only hearing Trump go off on a wildly racist and bigoted rant (and throughly enjoying the outright racist bilge) in the Offal Office against Ilhan Omar and Somalia people whilst flanked by the corpulent Republican Party.  

Then they hear a dutiful young MAGAT ask Trump do you think Governor Tim Walz should be investigated, and understand for every fascist Trump supporter once Donald says something it becomes the Truth.  Dutifully, the House Republicans will launch an investigation again to smear and make innuendo and to keep something in the News cycle and other things out, like the War Crimes Trump and Hegseth have committed and continue to commit.  And that's how the compliant Corporate Media can ignore the Trump/Republican healthcare plan that's been Two Weeks away for the last 15 years.

And while the rightwing Wurlitzer is determined to convict Governor Tim Walz and Somalian people of fraud, this ignores the entire rightwing grift in the PPP, and all the Republican millionaires who got their pandemic paycheck loan forgiven.  A list the Trump government no longer allows Americans to see on the official website.

Of course, this comes on the heels of some outrageous Pardons for convicted thieves who've stolen hundreds of millions of dollars, defrauded thousands of Americans, and wrecked the lives of countless others.  I know you probably forgotten some of the people Traitor Trump has let go but, it's a Rogue's Gallery of conmen who've ripped off vulnerable people throughout the Nation;

The list is too long to go through, even excluding the 1500+ terrorists who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6 2021 under Trump's attempt to overthrow the United States government,  here's a few I've been aware of;

• Ross Ulbricht 
• Devon Archer
• Todd and Julie Chrisley 
• Joseph Schawrtz 
• Meet George Santos (if that's really his real name)
• Michelle Fiore 
• Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of Binance, Binance has ties to the Trump family's cryptocurrency business.
• Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, and biggest US backed drug smuggler since Manuel Noriega

But, Trump knows the Corporate Media will tire of these pardons quickly and the move on to something else; especially if it's something outrageous he says like all people form Somalia are garbage.

And this is what white America and amazingly what some of the people (mainly men) of the groups Trump is brutalizing voted for.  Here CNN did an interview with a semi-famous Somali podcaster "Average Mohamed", who after being called garbage says, "Mr. President, we campaigned for you.  We have hope in you.  We see hope in you.  Please differentiate between good, bad and evil."

I'M ONE OF THE GOOD ONES!!!

I know rightwing propaganda is strong and incessant and drowns out everything else in America but, voting for Traitor Trump in 2024 was a vote for bigotry of a well known and infamous rapist con artist and sleaze. 

War Crimes: Coming Soon to a neighborhood near you

"I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."- Megyn Kelly (back in the 1990s Ann Coulter (the OG blonde rightwing harridan) used to say more and more inflammatory things in order to remain revenant and continually booked on the talk show circuit. Megyn Kelly says them because she believes them)

The (somewhat surprising) furor over the War Crimes committed by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump in the unlawful killing of people off the coast of Venezuela ignores the basic fact of the Republican Project of the last 50 years.

THE LAW is whatever Republicans in government say it is. 

For years, I've chaffed when Lawyers and Judges spoke about THE LAW as though it were some Platonic Ideal existing just out of the grasp of man, perfect in the firmament, awaiting just the right invocation or properly transcribed statute to unlock the Philosopher's Stone of Jurisprudence and lift man from the doldrums and imperfect world.  The Law is a man-made construct and thus is subject to man-made whims.  There is no Rule of Law and never has been it's always been Rule of Man.

And as every grotesque Republican will tell you Trump is the Man!

The Criminal Trump Cabal have no problem in admitting they've unlawfully killed people while also playing the Fake News card to muddy the waters and ensure their drones can deny the facts, the truth, and reality itself.  It doesn't even have to be plausible deniability at this point.  Do you understand yet?

• The whole last 50 years has been about Republicans infiltrating and subverting all levels of Government in order to one day takeover the entire Nation and undo the 20th century and their defeat in the Civil War.
• It began with Revisionist History and the Lost Cause mythos
• The successful century of conservative terrorism to limit and destroy communities, especially minority communities after the Civil War 
• Then when the Federal Government fought back against the Republican terrorist Jim Crow century the Nixon Southern Strategy embraced the South as a white power voting block to ensure Republicans would always be a threat to win the Presidency 
• The invention of rightwing State's Rights arguments (limited only when Republicans are out of power and sidelined when Republican control the levers of control)
• The rise of rightwing alternative media, especially potent with Ronnie Raygun's ending of the Fairness Doctrine and the Racist Rush Limbaugh in the 1980's and then Faux News in the 1990's
• The creation of Religious Liberty to undermine other peoples rights 
• The Shall Not Be Infringed Gun Nuts implicit threat to use violence against liberal and Democratic government and explicit mass shootings to undermine American society
• The Originalist Constitutional arguments to defeat progressive legislation and undermine advances for the majority of American citizens

Do you understand yet?

Anything Republicans have said or done ever since Nixon was forced to resign was based on the precept the Republicans would never again put Country before Party and would work every bureaucratic lever, invoke all manner of byzantine legerdemain, indulge in the outright lying about laws and reveal in all sorts of disingenuous trollish arguments to justify their actions.  Do you understand yet?

The point, ever since the 1971 Lewis Powell Jr Memo, outlined the broad strokes of the Republican plan to create a regime of unaccountability and do away with Due Process.  And under Traitor Trump, Republicans have realized that long-sought goal.  That Trump is the antithesis of everything Republicans claimed (falsely) to stand for is just the chef's kiss of totalitarianism.   Due Process is now gone, a historical artifact which no longer applies in the United States.

Sleepwalking towards Nuremberg while
J.D. Vance banged the table in encouragement

And when asked all Republicans have to do is claim they haven't read that news story, or didn't follow the reporting and wait a few days knowing the Corporate Media will simply drop the story.  Porno Speaker Mike Johnson has mastered this because he knows when the latest Republican outrage comes to light, the past ones won't be mentioned again.

Do you understand yet?

There is no Rule of Law.  There is no Due Process.  There is no Accountability.  

My god, did you hear any of Kingsley Wilson press conference?  And did you know that Laura Loomer and Matt Child Rapist Gaetz are the premier members of the press now?  Why because Republicans absolutely don't give a fuck about you and don't give a fuck about lying and don't give a fuck about committing war crimes.  Because they believe they are going to get away with it.

But, what's quite clear is every rightwing podcast propagandist, every elected Republican, every trollish social media turd is going to fight to make sure the Trump Regime suffers no consequences for their actions.  So expect the War Crimes to continue abroad and the Constitutional Crimes to continue at home.  

  

I've said before either White Peoples fascist fever breaks or the Nation does...  Do you understand yet?

Northwestern University bends the knee to Linda McMahon and Trumpism

Listen to Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty,
"don't come around here no more"

Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois likes to bill itself as the Harvard of the Midwest and it's academic reputation is, in fact, stellar.

But, over the past few years its' reputation has suffered due to cases of institutional abuse.

In 2023, NU football coach Pat Fitzgerald was abruptly fired in the wake of hazing and abuse scandal "The Wildcat Way", which was apparently rife throughout the NU Athletics programs.  Fitzgerald settled his lawsuit just a few months ago.

Of course ritual abuse and a widespread culture of humiliation thinly disguised as "hazing" didn't stop the plans and construction of the new FOOTBALL STADIUM as, Northwestern Athletics proudly unveiled the first looks at Ryan Field, the new $862,000,000 dollar Stadium to the public in November.

Of course, NU President Michael Schill won't see the unveiling of the Stadium because he's been forced to resign due to the Trump freeze on federal grant funding to NU.  Schill fired Pat Fitzgerald for the hazing culture at NU but, was forced to resign from bad faith rightwing pressure about "anti-semitism" at Northwestern stemming from the Gaza Protests in 2024.

Northwestern University has now shed their honor, and debased their academic integrity and freedom by paying a $75,000,000 bribe to the Trump Department of Education.

Northwestern University will pay a $75 million fine to settle allegations of antisemitism from the Trump administration, restoring hundreds of millions of federal funding, officials announced Friday.

As part of the agreement, Northwestern also said it will continue following federal anti-discrimination laws, review its international admission policies and terminate an agreement reached with pro-Palestinian demonstrators last year.

The nearly $800 million in federal research funding was abruptly paused in April.  The money is expected to be fully restored within 30 days, according to a statement from Northwestern University interim President Henry Bienen.

It's funny how close the cost of the FOOTBALL STADIUM at $862 million is to the $800 million in federal grant funds. Almost as if, had Northwestern had that money in reserve they could have resisted bending the knee to the Traitor Trump administration, and the criminals Pam Bondi and Linda McMahon.  The odious Linda McMahon is one of the few people to come to the White House criminal cabal already with a body count under her belt from her days of overseeing the WWE culture of coerced drug use, deliberate unsafe working conditions, and the gleeful abuse of men and women in order to make her a billionaire.

But, the Traitor Trump administration's disingenuous use of the Israel-Palestine situation, with full and complicit cooperation from the Corporate Media, to browbeat Universities and as a small but key component in their 2024 election strategy continues to highlight how every guardrail and every Institution that prided itself on freedom of speech or speaking truth to power were nothing more than paper-thin lies unable to withstand the slightest test.  Of course, defending academic freedom, along with law & order, helping farmers, honoring the troops, new and better healthcare plans, and home and grocery affordability were also lies Trump's cronies and their media allies unhesitatingly helped push throughout 2024 to aid Trump's election chances.

The way rightwingers (and leftists) were able to weaponize the Hamas and Israeli slaughter of innocents and use it underscores the power of agitprop and social media.  But, what the last decade of Trumpism has shown is how false the power of the Constitution and laws designed to stop the rise of Authoritarianism, how powerful propaganda remains during the internet age, how complicit and compliant the corporate media is towards Republicans and Billionaires, and how fast and feverishly white people embraced fascism.

Will they give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for starting the War in Venezuela?

FIFA Proudly Presents:
The Diaper DonOld #1 Peace President 

 Or for declaring Mission: Accomplished?

Personally, I thought Traitor Trump and Drunken Asshole Hegseth were playing "The card says Moops" rhetorical strategy and therefore Can't have War Crimes without a War!  Checkmate, libs!!!

And then proceeding to blow up boats off the coasts of Colombia and Venezuela and declaring the murdered men "unlawful combatants".

So, it should come as no surprise Drunken Asshole Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Navy to 'Kill them All',

"The order was to kill everybody," one of two people with direct knowledge of the operation told the Post.

Adm. Frank M. "Mitch" Bradley was reportedly the commander who oversaw the mission from Fort Bragg and, according to the Post, told others on a secure conference call that the second strike was necessary because survivors were still legitimate targets and could have called other drug traffickers to retrieve them and any leftover cargo.

Bradley reportedly ordered the second strike "to fulfill Hegseth’s directive that everyone must be killed." Those two survivors were killed while in the water.

Hegseth drinking poison at The Hague would
be a fitting final act for that treasonous slime.

Shooting people (even "unlawful enemy combatants") in the water after you conducted an attack on their vessel is a straight up War Crime and has been since at The Hague Convention of 1907 and for fucks sake at the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar British ships and commanders made efforts to save French and Spanish sailors from the sea.  The very reason the 4th Amendment, International Law, the Geneva Conventions, and so many other laws adopted over the centuries, fucking exist is so some drunk bureaucrat can not simply declare you a "Nacro-Terrorist" and have the Navy dutifully blow you up.

Again, Trump and the Republican Party are operating with the smug confidence of being absolutely certain they will face no repercussions.  So violating Due Process and being a Regime of Unaccountability is precisely how they intend to operate.  The Geneva Conventions be damned, Trump and Hegseth, and the little shits who go on Faux News have declared themselves within the law; what the fuck are you going to do about it?

But, Trump and his criminal cartel also want that Venezuelan Oil;

“Venezuela—for the American oil companies—will be a field day.  Because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity. American companies can go in and fix the whole oil rigs.  We’re gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies, and to the Venezuelans.” - Republican Congresswoman Maria Salazar

HOORAY VENEZUELANS WILL GREET US AS LIBERATORS!!!

So... expect the warmonger rhetoric and illegal strikes off the coast to continue until Trump and Hegseth declare Shock and Awe 2:  Shockier and Aweier!!!

Update:

Yeah, he's going to order some kind of military action against Maduro and Venezuela, and the Corporate Media is going to fucking love it, and all the so-called non-interventionists, and anti-regime change Republicans will not only applaud but won't dare to be the first to stop applauding.

And the whole paper-thin excuse of stopping the flow of illegal drugs is just consistently undercut by Traitor Trump pardoning federally convicted felons who smuggle drugs and use crypto to launder drug money.

Who Goes ICE 5? Those who wantonly and willfully violate the Constitution with Glee

Since Noem is already on a Hunger-strike
and she's obliterated her natural face with
MAGA affirming plastic surgery
and likes to play dress-up
What punishment fits her repeatedly breaking
the law?

Everyday brings some fresh revelation of the evils being perpetrated by the Traitorous Trump regime and his criminal underlings.

These Motherfuckers...

The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborhoods.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered the 43 videos released after she relied heavily on them in issuing a preliminary injunction last week restricting the use of tear gas and other chemical munitions by agents on the public and media.

In her 233-page opinion, Ellis wrote that, over and over, body-worn camera footage from the agents undermined what was eventually put in their use-of-force reports, rendering their statements unreliable.

The reports also misidentified “neighborhood moms and dads, Chicago Bears fans, people dressed in Halloween costumes, and the lawyer who lives on the block” as professional agitators, Ellis wrote, while the body cameras at times captured the agents’ apparent glee in deploying tear gas and other munitions on residential streets.

Read the whole story linked above.  The amount of Perjury, Straight up falsification of reports and Use of Force Violations are unbelievable.  Non-stop Crimes because they know the White People fucking love this and they know the Trump Department of Injustice will never prosecute them.

But besides rampant 1st and 4th Amendment violations we can add vile 8th Amendment violations against "Cruel and Unusual punishments".

 

Congresswoman Lauren Underwood released a statement about the conditions at Broadview

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Underwood's press release also highlighted several concerns;

The facility previously operated Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. but now runs seven days a week with significant overtime and plans for a third shift. She was informed that contracted officers at Broadview work for Paragon, which also supplies contracted personnel to the Federal Building in downtown Chicago and the ICE downtown Chicago processing center. Underwood was told that both sites are preparing for substantial expansion, including a potential reconfiguration of Broadview to accommodate temporary workspaces. Broadview Processing Center will reportedly be used as a training facility for newly hired Deportation Officers, due to the high volume of detainees. 

Understand even though Gregory Bovino has absconded after his numerous criminal acts, the Outside Agitators (known collqauiolay as ICE) are still wantonly causing trouble and still willfully breaking laws, not just ivo Chicago but across the country; 

Rhode Island

In Oregon at least 4 U.S. citizens have been unlawfully detained by ICE the week before Thanksgiving

Former Northern Exposure actress was detained and told her Tribal ID was fake.

This shit is outrageous.  Your rights are determined by the dumbest, most racist, vile pieces of shit hired by Trump and deployed by Noem to patrol the streets and empowered by the entire Republican apparatus.  The GOP so rapidly embraced a Secret Police Force they didn't have time to scrub their Twitter timelines of all the times they declared they would violently murder any Federal Law Enforcement Officers acting like ICE.  

It should also be noted this is a giant money drain from the US Treasury and huge transfer of wealth from things like SNAP and the other meager Federal budget items to help the American people into the hands of the Prison Industrial Complex (which is one of the key aspects of every Republican regime) with contractors drawing from the huge amount of money Traitor Trump transferred to his nascent Gestapho in training.

When Congresswoman references "Paragon", I'm guessing this is Paragon Solutions who have some contract with ICE and is another of these domestic spying operations the Treasonous Trump regime is using against the American people with little to no oversight from Congress since its' controlled by Trumpublican lick-spittles only to eager to stand up concentration camps in the Nation, while lavishing praise and succor for Masked Secret Police who blatantly break laws and the Constitution at will. 

Previously, one of the dutiful foot soldiers in the Department of Homeland Terrorism decreed there will be no more freedom of religion outside or in front of Broadview ICE facility.  Rightwing paramilitary terrorists enforced this by arresting clergy. 

The problem is there is are so many evil actions and bad actors operating simultaneously that their criminal acts are often discovered and reported on well after the fact and most often by independent and small local journalists.  The U.S. Corporate Media is invested in making Trump and everything he does "normal" so even when they do cover these acts it's with a slant to normalize and "sane wash" them. 

Look... ICE and Customs Border Patrol "Officers" have no fear of repercussion.  Under Traitor Trump, his Pam Bondi led Department of Injustice, and the Supremacist Court it was always going to be the case of Arrest them All Trump will know his own, we are living under a wildly unlawful regime.  A fascist regime white people gleefully enjoy and support.

And make no mistake, every time there is a hint of resistance every right-winger takes to their social media to declare WE ARE GOING TO MURDER EVERY DEMOCRAT, LIBERAL, and LEFTIST! just as they did when a Trump Afghan ally shot and killed two National Guard members.

The Inflection point is coming, that awful day Trump issues the Order to Shoot to Kill and to round-up and place millions of his political enemies into Concentration Camps.  It would seem most likely, to come before the next election.

Deranged Trump Syndrome. I Stand with Mark Kelly while Oathbreakers Trump and Hegseth can Pound Sand

Pound Sand you Drunk Asshole

Back in Spring when Trump was threatening to invade Canada or Greenland, Trump supporters would love to tell reporters how funny it was that Trump was Owning the Libs

The smile begins to form on Joseph Redmon's face, and there's even a little chuckle, at the first mention of Canada becoming the 51st state. "He's doing that just to get under people's skin and to make them upset, that's just sort of his mantra." 

"I just think it's funny when there's a lot of people with TDS, Trump derangement syndrome," -Ginny Delano, 72, a retiree, who thinks Trump is trying to taunt Canadians.

Ha ha ha ha you have TDS!  It's all such a hilarious lark to these people. So here we are with a Government comprised of rightwing trolls. 

    Of course, since Trump threats to annex Canada he has unleashed paramilitary domestic terrorists to attack residents in Chicago, LA, Charlotte and other cities in wild violations of use of force and constitutional protections.  Fortunately, as I've written before Courts, Grand Juries, and Judges have pushed back on this although this is often days and weeks after the paramilitary terrorists have committed blatant criminal acts, terrorized and subjected people with legal rights to acts of dehumanization and depravity.  On top of that Traitor Trump has taken to murdering people in international waters without Congressional Authorization, without publicly released evidence, and in face of unequivocal evidence at least some of the people targeted by this fascist regime are innocent fishermen. 

    But, you can trust him and Hegseth they have secret evidence of the guilt of the people they've blown up without Due Process.  And that gets to the very heart of the matter;  what Trump and his Republican criminal allies have conspired to create is a Regime of Unaccountability which flaunts Due Process at every turn.  It makes sense for Trump to do this; his whole life has been him conning, weaseling, and conniving his way out of the wrong-doing avoiding culpability through brute force, legal shenanigans, bureaucratic legerdemain and, of course, outright lying. 

Look at how he thinks the Supremacist Court will get him out of his guilt associated with his sexual assault on E. Jean Carroll.  Look at how the Republican Party has done everything they can to stop the release of Trump's deep connection to Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's deep involvement in child trafficking and sexual assault.

    Trump is Deranged, but he has conquered America and as a conqueror he believes his word is Law and everyone has to do what he orders.  In Trump's diseased syphilitic mind L'état, c'est moi.  By his every action and dictate Traitor Trump clearly believes himself to be an Absolute Ruler and styles himself a Louis XIV type figure; look at his gaudy gold leaf additions to the fucking Peoples' House.

    Hence, his absolute fury and demands that someone murder the Six Democratic legislators who pointed out that the military has the duty and obligation to disobey his clearly unlawful orders.  Senator (and distinguished Naval Officer and Astronaut) Mark Kelly along with Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin and US Representatives Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan and Jason Crow are American heroes and Senator Slotkin has it exactly right when she notes Traitor Trump's reaction is that a fascist dictator; 

"The president's reaction and the use of the FBI against us is exactly why we made the video," she said at an event in Michigan. He believes in using the federal government against his perceived adversaries, and he's not afraid to use the arms of the government against people he disagrees with,"

    Thus far Trump has found enough foot soldiers to carry out his unlawful and unconstitutional orders, whether that be Linda McMahon as the head of the "Department of Education", any number of ICE Agents willing to arrest American citizens, or the entire Republican Party which was not only ready but eager to surrender American Democracy to a lifelong conman and rapist.  

Michigan Republican Congresswoman Lisa McCLAIN eagerly went on Corporate Media to inform enlisted service members they serve the President, "You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took..."

Not quite. Of course, I wouldn't expect a Trump fawning lying lickspittle like McClain whose legislative record is one of fascist oppression and falsehoods to understand while the enlisted man's military Oath includes following the orders of the President, it however contains the huge caveat of "according to regulations and the UCMJ"...

I don't expect and no one should expect individual soldiers, airmen, sailors, and Marines to parse the orders of the President but, no sane person should ever want to put the military, individual unit commanders, and the upper Brass to the test of disobeying illegal orders.

But, no one in the Trump administration or Republican Party is sane.  What they are is drunk with power. 

Which is why Drunken Asshole Pete Hegseth tried to mock Senator Kelly.   Of course, Drunken Asshole Hegseth doesn't understand how mirrors work since a mirror would cause him to have to look at his disgusting visage instead of pretending he is at all qualified for the job of Sec Def while he parades around telling Generals and Admirals FAFO...

So... where will this go.  Trump will keep pushing "sedition" in a total case of Every Accusation is a Confession (EAIAC).  Faux News will keep demonizing Senator Kelly and every other Democratic politician as we edge closer and closer to that terrible day; the inflection point when Republicans attempt to round-up and murder millions of Us.

Who Goes ICE 4? Rightwing Domestic Terrorists and the necessity of rapid De-ICE-ification

Remember all those 2A Guns Rights groups 
claiming their guns were to be used against
Government Tyranny? Just White Lies...

"How does that governor know what the criminal record is of that individual hanging Christmas lights?" - known liar Greg Bovino defends his unlawful and unconstitutional actions on Faux News while also lightly threatening the Governor of North Carolina.  Understand to Republicans and white people every brown or black person is a priori guilty and their inherent guilt therefore justifies everything done to them by so-called "law enforcement".

        Every new incident captured on video cell phone camera confirms my belief about the quality and make-up of the Trump hires in Kristi Noem Department of Homeland Terrorism; rightwing domestic terrorists who came of age during Barack Obama's Presidency under the auspices of the Oathbreakers, Unconstitutional Sheriffs, III Inch Dicks, or Proud Boys or whatever on-line rightwing group under whom they came to be radicalized.

One of the least surprising things to come from the Republican traitors in Congress and the Federal Government was how rapidly they embraced Masked Secret Police, concentration camps, and Unconstitutional search and seizures.  An immediate repudiation of every so-called principle, belief, code, or ethics they falsely claimed to hold dear and cherish.

And I'm not even talking about the rampant perjury pervading throughout DHS.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security quietly corrected false information it published after The Charlotte Observer reported it incorrectly said a Honduran man charged in a Charlotte murder was released “back onto North Carolina’s streets... after authorities failed to honor the ICE detainer.” The man has never been released, the Observer reported. DHS did not reply to requests for comment, but it corrected its statement online. The updated statement does not have a correction line or indicate any changes have been made.

Somewhere in the Department of Homeland Security is a list of these people.  Each and everyone hired or working under DHS, ICE , CBP needs to be fired under the next Democratic administration. 

Every.  Single.  One.  Period.  A process of rapid De-ICE-ification.  Now, on one hand I know this will not occur.  Even Governor J.B. Pritzker who is clearly setting up to conduct a Truth & Reconciliation commission during his Presidency would, most likely, stick to going after the "bad apples" and the leadership like Noem, Tricia McLaughlin, or Greg Bovino.

Is this a serrated muzzle on the AR-15 being used
to break the window of an American citizen?

But, remember all these thin-dicked paramilitary traitors and criminals are fully expecting to be able to collect a pension and are going to sue and try and get all sorts of benefits for their "government service".  But, while that's a legal headache sure to cause decades of problems understand Republicans in the federal government will ensure any action taken against ICE or it's leadership or the Trump administration will result not only in legal challenges but, mass violence.  

ICE is going to be a fertile recruiting ground for Stephen Miller or whatever MAGA traitor grabs the Trump mantle to politically undermine the Nation going forward.  These ICE assholes are going to be the Freikorps for the next madman who takes up the Treasonous Republican mantle and seeks to overthrow the United States of America.

Who Goes ICE 3? Kavanaugh Stops and charges dropped

CBP Drive-by Pepper Spray attack in Berwyn*

“I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys,” Charles Exum

Remember that woman an ICE agent shot up after claiming she lead a Mad Max style convoy of 10 vehicles to box them in and attack them?  Well, her case and several others have been dropped in court;

It is a stunning comedown. Prosecutors moved to abandon on Thursday three cases brought against protestors, two of which DHS described as being brought against “domestic terrorists” as part of a national media campaign to portray the situation in Chicago as demanding a military deployment.

Now, the cases have come to nothing amid increasing scrutiny from the courts. 

In the case of Marimar Martinez, the 30-year old Chicagoan shot five times in October by a Border Patrol officer, DHS officials accused her of being part of a convoy of “10 cars” that “rammed” and “boxed” agents in. Those allegations were contradicted by an affidavit filed by federal agents in the case and evidence that was introduced later.

The motion to drop the charges against Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, another protester, comes at a critical time in the case.

It appears Trump Department of Injustice didn't want any more texts from Border Patrol Asshole Charles Exum's broadcast in the courtroom.  Especially, because there appears to be a text chain of additional communications between Exum and other yet unidentified Agents involved in this shooting incident which have not been made public.  

Back when I started the old timers always told us younger officers never say (or text) anything you don't want shown in big bold letters on a giant poster board in Court.  I know from experience these text chains were likely a seething cauldron of grotesque sexist racist violent garbage.  And, of course, after his disastrous November 5th testimony,

“This incident is so unlike anything that we have trained for, this would almost equate to our counter vehicle assault training, which typically takes place out of country, in cartel controlled areas of Mexico, or combat situations,” Exum testified.

Get!  The fuck!  Outta here! With this bullshit!  Acting like this is a enemy contact drill in fucking Iraq.  Besides which this statement is an absolute and total lie.  If we weren't for the fact fascist trash like Exum are conducting unconstitutional actions across the Nation this would be a fucking sick joke.

On one level it's good these wholly false and malicious prosecutions are being stopped by the Courts, as this is the bedrock of Due Process, something the MAGA Cult and the Treasonous Trump regime loathe.  I've been pleasantly pleased and glad that during this fascist reimagining of the United States;  Grand Juries, Courts, and Judges are not laying down and acquiescing to the Republican march towards an Authoritarian State.  Of course, these stunning losses in courts shows how slap-dash, incompetent, and deceitful everyone in the Trump admin actually is...    

But, Traitor Trump being a "showman" knows, and has instructed his minions, the Act of the Arrest is the most important aspect of their actions.  Besides placing the arrestee into peril and distress bigoted white Trump supporters equate arrests with absolute guilt.  And with the pageantry of slick videos Trump and his cadre of criminal co-conspirators know they can simply lie about the incidents, Faux News will dutifully pick up and broadcast the Administration's lies, and rightwing podcast propagandists will spread it throughout social media until the Trump lies are the narrative.

Another case dropped was against Air Force veteran Dana Briggs.  I watched the video of Briggs unlawful arrest by the ICE Gestapho at Broadview, in which the fully armed and camo-decked out ICE forces advanced on Briggs and other protestors.  Briggs's shoved and stumbles backwards falling down.  At which point you can clearly see what goes through that guy's head, 'Fuck!' so he reaches down to help Briggs up and a second ICEhole helps but when the third fascist grabs at Briggs arm, as Briggs is giving his phone to someone else, Briggs slapped one of those old person chiding slaps the 3rd guys hand away.

At that point the ICE agents conduct a full-force felony hog tie arrest on Briggs.  The Department of Homeland Terrorism wrote up the charge thusly,

Briggs allegedly made physical contact with an agent’s arm while the agent attempted to extend the safety perimeter around the facility. As well, he was verbally abusive towards agents.

Oh no he had used bad words!!!  It's cynically hilarious for  MAGA Chuds to claim verbal abuse when their living deity routinely calls for the murder of liberals, protestors, and Democratic politicians and MAGA dismisses as Har Har Har you have TDS because of Mean Tweets!!!

Of course, Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes fortunately pointed out how disingenuous, how unserious yet extremely serious all these charges brought by the criminal Trump regime are;

“The court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. attorney’s office in this district to charge so hastily that it either could not obtain the indictment in the grand jury or was forced to dismiss upon a conclusion that the case is not provable, in repeated cases of a similar nature.

“A ‘no bill’ vote by a grand jury was virtually unheard of in this district until Operation Midway Blitz,” Fuentes wrote Thursday. “The last and only one the court can remember was from the early part of this century. Then, in the past two months, at least three have occurred.”

“Any responsible federal prosecutor knows this,” Fuentes wrote. “Any responsible federal prosecutor knows that federal charges, or any actions by the United States attorney directed at the citizenry, must be undertaken with the utmost care.”

*- Video captured what appeared to be pepper spray attack by a federal agent into Rafael Veraza's car.  He, his wife, and their 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed by federal agents as they were leaving a Cicero Sam's Club parking lot on Saturday. said he was just pulling out of the Cicero Sam's Club parking lot with his window rolled down.

Let me tell you, this kind of callous abuse of authority and unlawful use of force was exactly what Blackwater mercenaries did in Iraq.  Again we see Global War on Terrorism tactics being used on American soil; fascism is just colonialism turned inwards...

Iowa Farmers voted for Trump so he bankrupted them

“In case you don’t know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer. So, I have felt this pain too,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said to Martha Raddatz on ABC News, "This Week".  When a Republican says he's a farmer he means he owns land...

In some of the most unsurprising news, DonOld Traitor Trump's brain-dead administration is bankrupting Iowa farmers, 

The trend is continuing. Iowa data through October show 18 farm bankruptcy filings. That's the largest number since 2020, when the state’s farm bankruptcies hit a high of 37, following a six-year agricultural slump. 

Nationally, 181 farmers have filed for bankruptcy protection in the first two quarters of 2025, nearly 60% more than this time last year, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court filings. Arkansas led the U.S. with 19 farm bankruptcy filings, followed by Iowa at 16; Georgia, 15; California, 12; and Nebraska, 11.

Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Georgia...  Trump... Trump... Trump...  Trump.... Despite 40 fucking years of liberals and leftists scrapping and fighting for them, creating giant benefit concerts like FARM AID, midwestern fucking farmers have not only continued to vote for Republicans but do so more vehemently as they become more and more reactionary. 

For decades, since at least Bill Clinton famously said "I feel your pain", we have been offering compassion, care, assistance, thoughts, and every type of outreach to people who continue to slap our hands away, flick us off, and vote for fucking fascists.

Trump won Iowa in 2024 handily.  He won in it 2020 and in 2016.  What should we make of this?

And yes, I know Iowa went for Barack twice but, that's nearly 15-20 years ago and Iowa has been voting Chuck Fucking Grassley into office for 65 fucking years.  So, there goes the whole demographic destiny being on the side of Democrats.   At some point we have to abandon these people.  

During his first maladministration, Trump bankrupted Farmers and then handed them a big government socialism bailout.  This did not alter their voting patterns.  This did not cause them to re-evaluate their love of Faux News and their hatred of nearly invisible Trans people.  No instead they clung, bitterly, to their white hatred and wedded themselves even more closely to a child rapist conman who fucking sold them out again.  A fucking traitor whose most famous for his sexual abuses and bankruptcies...  Now of course, he's planning on bailing them out again.

Bigoted whites love their racism and hatred more than they love anything including their own lives and livelihoods.  At some point we have to emulate Iowa's favorite son and just let them die...

But, we won't because to Bernie Sanders and his Bros these are the real Americans.  These rural whites are the working class he so valorizes.  He so champions.  The very people who consistently tell him to fuck off with their votes.

Most likely, we will continue with this disgusting charade of Iowa farmers being the quintessential real Americans, and Trump and his Republican Party will continue to say they love farmers (like they do with Veterans, small business owners, first responders, and so many others) whilst their actions are in diametric opposition and their policies destroy the very same people they claim to love.

*- Look I understand food production should not be a for-profit enterprise.  Of all the things which should be under Government control and direction producing food should perhaps be number one.  But, rich people have made agriculture into agri-business and that means the horrors of corrupt capitalism now dominate the production of food stuffs instead of it being a common good.

Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 47: FLOCK used to be called the Panopticon, misuse of the ALPR

     A few years before I retired, the department began using the FLOCK system more extensively.  Originally, as a regular patrol officer I didn't have an account to log in and access the system.  But over the last couple of years or so the department ordered me to get an account but, through managed avoidance and deliberate disobedience I never did.  But, I've seen it in use and know how it works.

Every single vehicle that drives by a Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) is recorded and saved.  Multiple pictures, including details of the vehicle and the driver.  This creates a massive database that anyone with a simple login can access and search statewide.  Of course, this is ripe for malfeasance.  Of course, such a database is going to be misused over and over and over and over both on the small and large scale.

Last year, a Kansas Sheriff used Flock to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend,

A police chief used cameras 228 times over four-plus months to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend's vehicles.  Sedgwick's Police Chief Lee Nygaard used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend, according to The Wichita Eagle. 

This year, a Northwestern Chicago suburb, had their account used by CBP or ICE in preparation for the criminal actions hilariously called "Midway Blitz", 

On June 11, 2025, at 4:30 P.M., the Mount Prospect Police Department (MPPD) was made aware of an investigation by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office into the misuse of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data through Flock Safety that violated Illinois state law. Data from Mount Prospect, along with other Illinois law enforcement agencies, was accessed through the Flock Safety “National Lookup” feature by other law enforcement agencies for purposes of immigration enforcement. 

The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office investigation revealed that other law enforcement agencies conducted 262 immigration-related searches on Mount Prospect’s ALPR data. It is likely other Illinois communities with Flock cameras would show similar searches of their local cameras if audited. MPPD was unaware of these searches until being notified by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office at the end of the day on June 11. 

The Mount Prospect Police Department learned at the end of May that the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department in Texas utilized the Flock Safety “National Lookup” feature, accessing the data from over 83,000 cameras around the country, including Mount Prospect’s. 

And remember the initial scan, digital image, and storage are not post-criminal investigation or after a warrant but simply because you drove by the camera or even if the camera was pointed towards your residence,

Lee Schmidt, a retired veteran, wanted to know more about the license plate cameras tracking him in Norfolk, Virginia, where he lives.  So he sued with a co-plaintiff and a legal nonprofit and got an answer: 176 cameras across the city logged his location 526 times between Feb. 19 and July 2, according to a Monday court filing. That’s about four times per day.

Schmidt’s co-plaintiff, Crystal Arrington, a health care worker who lives nearby, was surveilled even more. Her location was logged 849 times between Feb. 19 and July 3, averaging more than six times a day. 

There are tons of other instances of misuse across multiple states but, fortunately as with lawsuit in Virginia, another lawsuit in Washington State has municipalities and lawmakers scrambling because the ruling is ALL FLOCK data is in the public domain.

In her Nov. 6 ruling, Judge Elizabeth Neidzwski said the cities of Sedro-Woolley and Stanwood could not deny an Oregon man’s public records requests for Flock photos and data because they qualify as public records and can’t be exempt from release under the state’s Public Records Act.

It is not clear whether Stanwood or Sedro-Woolley intend to appeal Neidzwski’s ruling. Stanwood Mayor Sid Roberts and Sedro-Woolley’s City Administrator Charlie Bush declined to comment, citing the ongoing litigation.

But the ruling has already had a chilling effect on some Washington jurisdictions’ desire for the technology and the potentially overwhelming number of public records it could one day burden them with stewarding.

Hilariously, the Stanwood Village attorney tried to argue fulfilling the FOIA request in the lawsuit would violate peoples privacy rights!  Whilst the State, local, and increasingly Federal officials mine the images for use in their unconstitutional actions!

The initial argument has always been you have no expectation of privacy out in public and while freedom of movement is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, driving an automobile is a privilege therefore driving and everything associated with it is not protected from this surveillance.  Of course, as people have questioned this rationale; the arguments changed to safety and law & order.

Think of all those Silver Alerts elderly dementia suffers found by the FLOCK system!  Why just look at all the Hit & Run crashes solved with FLOCK!  Imagine all those over-night burglaries we can wrap up by tying them to this car we tracked!  It used to require some investigation and a warrant to place a tracker on suspected vehicles used by burglary crews!

But, it's too hard for Police to do old-fashioned shoe leather investigation these days or patrol at night because Police are similtanesouly really really lazy and over-tasked with extraneous duties because Villages see a huge portion of their budget go to Police and Fire so just continually expand their duties and of course white people call 911 for everything, so instead let's just set-up a dystopian nightmare and  surveil everyone and sort it out later.

After all if you have nothing to hide... you should be fine with the Child Rapist Trump administration having a complete picture of your comings and goings as well as your associations and any other potentially embarrassing or damaging thing they could use to silence, intimidate, or perhaps incarcerate you for...

In Onion there is Strength...

"I could smell the onions and mustard," Border Patrol Agent Gregory Lairmore cried.

I'm very far behind in writing about this development especially as the Traitor Trump regime and their Department of Homeland Terror continues to commit crimes and tear down every guardrail erected to safeguard the Democracy in the Republican pursuit of rebirth of the Confederacy and Jim Crow America.  

But, as you've no doubt heard Sean Dunn, the famous DC Sandwich Guy, was found not guilty and acquitted of the charges brought against him by the US Department of Injustice.  Pam Bondi and Jeanne Pirro were determined to make an example of this guy and originally sought Felony charges which a Grand Jury declined but, then proceeded to go ahead with several misdemeanor charges.

Personally, I'd be embarrassed to go on the stand and testify I felt the impact of a sandwich on my ballistic vest the way Lairmore did.  He's apparently a 22 year veteran so I worked law enforcement almost as long as he has, but while he knows this should have been a case of RWOC after Dunn was "apprehended" but, the question is was he pressured or expected to bring charges because of the message Treasonous Trump officials demanded it.

Because it seems the SOP and standing orders from higher ups, in newly obtained video Greg Bovino, the lying commander of Customs and Border Patrol, did a football like rally for his "troops" declaring 

“Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to. Those are the general orders...  Everybody fucking gets it, if they touch you, you hear what I’m saying?  It’s fucking ours, it’s our fucking city.”- Proven Liar Gregory Bovino

This is grotesque and more to the point is clear cut evidence of what the true goals of Traitor Trump and illustrates the goals of the ghouls in his regime with these ICE raids;  fear, intimidation, control, and terrorism.

While, Bovino is particularly bad make no mistake the rot and perjury permeates the entire department and structure of terrorist Homeland Security organization.

This is a permanent part of Trump's Fascist America

Because while diversity is the strength of the Democratic Party conversely, Republican strength comes from lying.  

Republican officials have been outright lying for decades now.  Ronnie Raygun made it central to his Presidency, Racist Limbaugh and Faux News broadcast non-stop lies for the last 30 years, Newt Gingrich and the 1990s Republicans spent their careers lying, Dick Cheney and the GWoT Republicans lied about everything during the W(orst Administration) and Donald Traitor Trump 10 years dominating the United States political scene are a non-stop litany of lies, falsehoods, exaggerations, bullshit, and propaganda.

The number of incidents and list of constitutional violations, outrageous abuse of power, unlawful use of force, and outright crimes committed by Trump's band of Domestic Terrorists grows everyday.  ProPublica, however, did a deep dive into one of the worst incidents, the so-called raid at 7500 South Shore Dr in southern Chicago revealed the depth of depravity and the most obvious goals for the fascists; fear, terrorism, pain, and brutality. 

Federal prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Nor have they revealed any evidence showing that two immigrants arrested in the building belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang, or even provided their names. ProPublica was nonetheless able to identify one of them, Ludwing Jeanpier Parra Pérez, from a press release that did not connect him to the raid. Parra denied that he is a member.

So far, no evidence has been offered publicly for all the Department of Homeland Security, or the evidence they've claimed to have about drugs, guns, and gang members nor any warrants for arrest or deportation.  Instead Traitor Trump officials know all they have to do is claim things which the Corporate Media dutifully regurgitates without question and white people voraciously lap it up.  These decades of lying and inculcation of white grievance and victimhood has had its' desired affect because white people, especially white men, are demonstrably adamant in expressing their contempt for the concepts and customs of Democracy, the Law, and the other pillars of the United States of America.

Understand white men, for the most part, are a lost cause.  They've not only fully accepted lies from Republicans, they yearn to see these snuff films and slickly produced videos of harm being done to Hispanic people.  For years, whites claimed you can't trust the Government but, that as everything a right-winger says was merely a rhetorical device to weaken political opposition to their plans to Make the South Rise Again and institute a Nation of White Power.